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MIAMI--Fallen Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega told a federal judge yesterday that he is a political prisoner and refused to enter a plea to charges he took $4.6 million to turn his nation into a way station for the cocaine trade...
...stand trial on the 15 drug-related and money-laundering charges handed down by federal grand juries in Tampa and Miami in February 1988. But to convict Noriega, prosecutors would have to rely largely on the testimony of two convicted felons who traded their stories for plea bargains. Moreover, Noriega's long association with the CIA could block any successful prosecution. His lawyers are certain to demand access to classified material that the Government will be reluctant to release, a tactic that has proved successful in the Iran- contra trials. Warns Richard Gregorie, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Miami...
...April 22 date has special meaning for environmentalists: it marks the 20th anniversary of the first Earth Day. In that memorable 1970 mobilization, which evolved from an idea by Senator Gaylord Nelson, more than 20 million Americans, many of them students, rallied under the banner of Mother Nature. Their plea for action helped lead to the passage of the Clean Air Act and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
This is not a plea for Harvard to babysit us. It is a plea that the administrators recognize us as adults capable of improving the community in which we live. Commencement speakers say we will leave Harvard to change the world. I wanted to change Harvard first, because for four years it was my world, and because it needed changing...
Despite Gorbachev's plea for urgent action on the economy, a long debate over procedural matters threw the Congress behind schedule, delaying Premier Nikolai I. Ryzhkov's economic report. That report apparently will be based on a long-term plan developed by his deputy, Leonid Abalkin, that includes making the ruble convertible, selling off unprofitable state enterprises and developing a stock market...